Sunday's 14-10 Cowboys victory over divisional rival, Washington showed some new revelations about this Dallas squad. I have to admit I was extremely nervous before, during and after the game. Nervous before, because I wasn't sure Romo would look like himself. Nervous during, because Romo wasn't looking like himself. And nervous after, because Romo completed only one pass in the final series of the game and didn't look like himself.
Give him one more week and I think he will look like himself, but in the meantime it seems like another hero has taken this team on his back. Not only did Marion Barber look like a beast in the fourth quarter, rushing for 63 yards and totally over 100 yards for only the third time this season, he supplied the "heart and soul" that this team had been looking for all season.
Barber has carried the ball 196 times this season, ranking him 5th in total carries in the NFL. I would guess that this standing might go up quite a bit in the final 6 games of the season. Barber has emerged as the dependable, reliable, consistent back that the Cowboys needed him to be. And more importantly his success last night allowed a rusty Tony Romo to ease back into the game.
With Romo back and Barber finally being given the opportunity to carry this team down the stretch, anything is possible. Throw in a healthy Terence Newman and a recovered Jason Witten, and the possibilities for this team are endless. This rather large hiccup in their season might be just when they needed to find themselves.
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